Canada moves toward nationwide single-use plastics bans
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The Canadian government May 12 officially added plastic products to its list of toxic substances, paving the way for nationwide bans on single-use products and drawing a sharp rebuke from industry groups.
Industry associations said the regulatory listing could harm investment in the country s plastic sector, while environmental groups praised it and urged the government to move quickly with its new authority to ban six types of single-use plastics.
The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada said it was disappointed in the decision, which officially lists plastic manufactured items as toxic substances on Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
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The federal government Wednesday listed plastics as toxic under Canada s main environmental law, paving the way for stronger rules. Photo by Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace
Plastic is now considered toxic under Canada’s primary environmental law the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) the Trudeau government announced Wednesday.
The decision, which comes despite months of lobbying by Canada’s $28-billion plastics industry, paves the way for a proposed ban on some single-use items. A series by
Canada’s National Observer earlier this year catalogued the sustained push by the plastics and food industries to disassociate plastics from anything to do with the word toxic.
The designation is already drawing sharp criticism from industry associations. May 12, 2021 Canadian Plastics
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The Canadian government has officially added “plastic manufactured items” to its list of “toxic” substances on Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).
The move, announced on May 12, was first proposed by the federal government last October.
While drawing praise from some environmental groups, industry associations, including the Ottawa-based Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC), expressed disappointment with the announcement.
“We remain concerned that today’s decision sends the wrong message to global chemistry investors, namely that Canada is ambivalent about the enormous investment prospects for the circular economy for plastics,” CIAC said in a May 12 statement. “[We’re] disappointed that safe inert plastic materials that play such important roles in Canadians lives ar
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